Fatima Mantash

Fatima Mantash (1966-) was a resident of West Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. In 1985, she was supposed to be married, but her fiancee Bilal killed himself in a suicide bombing which wounded 5 Israeli soldiers. She supported Ayatollah Khomeini's Shia revival and her husband's martyrdom, and, on 4 November 1985, she expressed to Thames Television her wish that she had accompanied Bilal on his final mission.